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Thursday, March 28, 2024


Exhibition Public - USA & Canada

Joryū Hanga Kyōkai, 1956–1965: Japan’s Women Printmakers

Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park Avenue,
Portland, Oregon, USA
Sep 24, 2020 To Jun 13, 2021


Detail: In October 1956, a vibrant group of contemporary etchings, relief prints, and lithographs went on display in a Tokyo gallery. This was the debut exhibition of Japan’s first printmaking society for women artists, the Joryū Hanga Kyōkai, or the Women’s Print Association. It provided a crucial vehicle for talented female printmakers working in a crowded field of male maestros. For the next decade, the nine professional women artists who founded the society would continue to stage exhibitions of their work—culminating in a triumphant show in New York City in 1965—before going on to pursue successful solo careers. Drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection and important private collections, this exhibition unearths a critical, dynamic, and understudied episode of modern printmaking history.

This exhibition presents a timely look at the careers of the group’s founding members and others who joined in successive years. Many of the works by these female printmakers are now extremely rare. Only a few of the artists, mostly in their 90s, are alive today. Yet their collective body of work is as diverse as it is visually captivating. In Joryū Hanga Kyōkai, 1956–1965, works by artists like Iwami Reika (1927-2020), Kobayashi Donge (b. 1926), Shima Tamami (1937-1999), Uchima Toshiko (1918–2000), and Yoshida Chizuko (1924–2017) demonstrate the expansive and fiercely creative vision of Japan’s first women printmakers association.

Phone No.: 503-226-2811
Contact Email: [email protected]
Site URL: https://portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/joryu-hanga-kyokai/

oshida Chizuko (Japanese, 1924-2017), <em>Jam Masjid</em> (detail)
oshida Chizuko (Japanese, 1924-2017), Jam Masjid (detail)
Japan
1960
color woodblock print on paper

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